Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from East Timor and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Peter and Kerry to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by the Association. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stetsasonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terror Squad Feat. Camron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
The Mojo Men,
Oneida,
The Slackers,
Piero Umiliani,
Groovy Waters,
The Sound,
The Young Rascals,
The Martian,
Eric B and Rakim,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Kinks,
Angry Samoans,
Spandau Ballet,
Leonard Cohen,
Can,
Trumans Water,
Grandmaster Flash,
Depeche Mode,
Moby Grape,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Cybotron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
Skaos,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Tubeway Army,
Average White Band,
Massinfluence,
Anakelly,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Dark Day,
Aaron Thompson,
Aloha Tigers,
Soft Machine,
The Pop Group,
Sun City Girls,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Index,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Loose Ends,
10cc,
The Angels of Light,
Kaleidoscope,
Jandek,
David McCallum,
The Tremeloes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Cowsills,
Fluxion,
The Cramps,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Idris Muhammad,
Funkadelic,
Marvin Gaye,
The Trojans,
Q and Not U,
R.M.O.,
The Golliwogs,
The Barracudas,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Liliput, Liliput, Liliput, Liliput.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.